Kagerou Daze, Vol. 3: The Children Reason by Jin (Shizen no Teki-P)

Author:Jin (Shizen no Teki-P),
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yen Press
Published: 2016-01-26T05:00:00+00:00

Her mention of the word “drowned” instantly brought up memories from my own younger years, memories that existed only in a fog by now. It was something I recalled now and again, but suddenly Kido’s story was tinting those memories a far more ominous shade.

“…You know, I think that’s maybe when Momo started to be like that. After she drowned in the ocean.”

“Kisaragi?”

“Yeah…You know, um, I’d appreciate it if you don’t discuss this with her too much. But yeah, there she was…and our dad, too, trying to save her…”

There was apparently a whole crowd of people watching my dad diving in to help Momo after she got swept into the sea. Once he swam over to where Momo was, a giant wave swallowed them up.

I heard all about it from my mother afterward, once I got home from the test prep center I was attending. There was an immediate search-and-rescue effort, of course, but they never found my dad. The next day, somebody spotted Momo washed up on the beach. Miraculously alive, they said.

“Oh…I see. Yeah. Not the kind of thing you wanna bring up with Kisaragi around the breakfast table.”

“No, yeah, you see what I mean? But your story reminded me of something else, too.”

There was something in common between Kido’s tale and Momo’s drowning.

Kido said she woke up in the burnt-out shell of her house. Which meant that, for the entire time that place was burning to the ground, she was there.

Momo wasn’t found until the next day. Which meant that, between that wave and her discovery, she was there in the water.

Thinking about it rationally, would someone have any chance of survival in those conditions?

No. They couldn’t have. Yes, miracles happen every day in our blessed, beautiful world, and all of that. But you couldn’t explain all this away with trite aphorisms like that.

Why not? Because once you add Kido’s “huge mouth” to the mix, everything suddenly made sense.

What if that mouth swallowed up Kido just as she succumbed to the flames, and swallowed up Momo just as she took her first lungful of water? They could’ve been inside there that whole time, before being “spit out” just before their respective miraculous rescues.

It was kind of a wild story, yes. But Kido’s and Momo’s “abilities” with their eyes might provide all the evidence needed to prove it.

“I was just thinking, if that ‘huge mouth’ you saw was the reason why you all got those abilities with your eyes, then maybe that mouth swallowed up Momo back then, too. I know that’s pretty off-the-wall, but…”

Pretty off-the-wall, but something told me that the common-sense rules of planet Earth were powerless in the unexplainable face of these “abilities.”

And behind these unexplainable skills, an unexplainable common presence…

“Hmm. Yeah. We were kind of thinking along similar lines ourselves. And if Kisaragi had that same thing happen to her, I guess we can pin the blame on that…thing for our abilities. She’ll have Kano backing her up on that too, so…For now, that sounds like the safe bet to make.

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